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(No Model.)

4 H. HAWES.

SEAT FOR RAILWAY GARS.

No. 451,690. Patented Mays, 1891.

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UNITED STATE-s VPATENT OFFICE.,`

HARRY nAwE-s, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

SEAT FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,690, dated May 5, 1891.

Application iiled January 16, 1890. Serial No.337,l23. (No model.)

To all w'hom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY HAWEs, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Seats for Railway- Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates particularly to means for shifting the backs of the seats of railway-cars from one edge of the seat to the other. This operation becomes necessary in order that the passengers may face the front of the carin whicheverdirection the car may be moving.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a car-seat and means for shifting the backs of the seats, the section being taken on the line a; ,Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan or top vievsT of the same.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both theigures.

A A designa-tc seat-frames upon which a seat B is supported. The seat B may be of the usual or any desired kind.

C C designate swinging arms. In the ample of my improvement shown said swinging arms are rigidly connected near their lower ends to a shaft D,Which shaft is journaled near its ends in the seat-frames A A.

E E designate stationary arms for the carseat. These arms are at the ends of the seat and are provided with longitudinally-extending arc-shaped slots or grooves d. They may form part of the seat frames. Upon the swinging arms C C and extending from'the sides thereof are pins or projections a,which pins or projections extend into the slots or grooves a. The arms C C are provided with transverselyextending' arc shaped slots or grooves c.

F designates a back for the seat. This back is pivotally hung near its upper edge and at its ends in the upper end portions of the swinging arms C C. Near the lower edge of ysaid back and extending from the ends thereof are pins or projections f, which pins or projections extend into the arc-shaped slots or grooves c in the arms C CY. The ends of the slots or grooves d operate as stops to limit the degree of swinging movement which may be imparted to the arms C C. The ends of the slots or grooves c operate as stops to limit the degree of swinging movement of the back F.

The degree of swing of the arms C C and of the back Fis such that when the back has been brought into either of its positions it will stand at a proper angle to form an easy support for the back of a person occupying the seat. I have shown the ends of the slots or grooves co as provided with bumpers l), which bumpers may be made of india-rubber. They prevent noise and too violent striking of the pins or projections a against the ends of the slots or grooves d.

The means for shifting the backs of all the seats along one side of the oar in unison consists of a shaft G, upon which shaft are mounted a number of worms g, which worms will correspond in number to the number of seat` backs to be shifted. These worms engage worm-wheels 1G', which worm-wheels are rigidly keyed upon the shafts D. Rotary motion imparted to the shaft G will thus cause the swinging of all the arms C C and the backs F in the row of seats. As an advantageous means for rotating the shaft G, I provide one end of the shaft wit-h a bevel gear-wheel I-I, which gear-wheel gears with another gearwheel H', to the rear side of which is secured a toothed wheel H2. The gear-wheel II and the toothed wheel H2 are mounted upon a stud 7L, extending from the side of the car. Upon this stud is hung a lever I, near the lower end of the latter. Upon the lever I is arranged a sliding locking-tooth I2. The locking-tooth I2 is connected by means of a rod t' to a lever J, fulcrumed upon the lever I near the upper end of the latter. The leverJ comprises a handle y', near the handle of the lever I. By grasping the handle of the lever Iand forcing the handle of the leverJ toward it the sliding tooth 2 may be Withdrawn from between the teeth on the toothed wheel H2. The lever I may be thenswung into a desired position upon either side and the sliding tooth I2 passed into a space between the teeth upon the wheel H2. By then swinging the lever I in the required direction rotary mot-ion may be imparted to the wheel H2, so as to transmit rotary motion to the shaft G. Thus the arms O C and the backs F may be shifted to either of their positions, as required. When the backs have been shifted to their required positions, the worms g and the gear-wheels G IOO were provided with the pins or projeetionsf, while the backs F were provided with slots or grooves c, the result. would be the six-me.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with :L number of seati'rmnes and seats, of swinging arms pivoted near their lower ends to the seat-fumes, sentbzieks suspended from the mvinging arms,

' pinions fixed to the swinging arms, and nrolary shaft; provided with worms in engage ment with the said pinions for simultaneously Shifting the Swinging arms :md backs, substantially :1S Set forth.

HARRY HAWES.

Witnesses:

FREDK. IIAYNES, D. H. HAYWOOD. 

